TPI January 2009

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Interpipe to supply steel pipes for construction of new cruise ship Steel pipe and railway wheels producer Interpipe has signed a contract with Finnish Steel service centre Finnish Ore Oy. Interpipe will supply steel pipes via Finnish Ore Oy for the building of the giant cruise ship Allure of the Seas, to be constructed in the Turku yard in Finland by international shipbuilding group STX Europe. Interpipe will supply seamless hot-formed construction pipes to be used in building the deck along the perimeter of the vessel.

For the first time, there will be a special show about profiles and profile technology, featuring machines and systems for the production of profiles and presenting the final products. After the success of the two events in 2008, the organisers estimate that 35,000 visitors and 1,000 exhibiting companies will attend Tube 2010, in a display area of 40,000m 2 . wire 2010 is expected to welcome more than 41,000 visitors and host around 1,100 exhibitors in 51,500m 2 of exhibition space. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH – Germany infoservice@messe-duesseldorf.de www.messe-duesseldorf.com www.tube.de Stainless steel pipes for projects in Egypt and Oman Sitindustrie, Italy, has supplied more than 3,000 tons of stainless steel pipes for projects in Egypt and Oman. Sitindustrie Tubes & Pipes produced 1,900 tons of stainless steel pipes for Khalda Petroleum for the Qasr project in Egypt, a joint venture between the American company Apache Energy and the Egyptian General Petroleum and others.

The Oasis-class cruise ship will be a sister ship of the largest cruise ship in the world, Oasis of the Seas , of cruise company Royal Caribbean International. The new ship will have a length of 360m, a width of almost 50m and a height of 73m.

Cruise liner ▲ ▲ Allure of the Seas

Representatives of Finnish Ore Oy and STX Europe visited Interpipe’s mills and conducted an internal audit of the manufacturing technologies employed, to ensure the pipes are produced in accordance with the two companies’ high quality standards. Oleg Kuzmin, director for corporate affairs at Interpipe, commented, “ Interpipe highly values the opportunity to assist with the building of giant cruise ship Allure of the Seas , and we look forward to working closely with Finnish Ore Oy during this project. The realisation of the project will enable Interpipe to expand its sales within the Northern European market and improve its presence in the shipbuilding industry. ”

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produced in ferritic/austenitic stain- less steel (Duplex, UNS S31803), requiring a difficult manufacturing process. Fausto Bocciolone, president and managing director of the Sitindustrie Group, stated that “ these important orders allow us to confirm the positive growth in market of stainless steel pipes. The successful trend in the field of stainless steel tubes and pipes intended to the oil and gas extraction and refinery, shows that Sitindustrie is able to support the most important worldwide engineering companies in the achievement of projects that are becoming larger and more complex, due to the high price of oil. ” Sitindustrie Tubes & Pipes – Italy andrea.ulliana@sitindustrie.com www.sitindustrie.com

dry land. Discovered in Egypt in recent years, it has a capability of 1.5 million cubic metres of gas and 1,739 barrels of oil per day. The company also produced 1,100 tons for the Saih Rawl and Mabrouk projects in Oman, managed directly by Petroleum Development of Oman. This order strengthens the company’s close relationships with the Sultanate and follows previous orders in 2005 (US$12.5 million) and 2006 (US$25 million), for the management and the export of natural gas present in the vast fields of Oman. The values of the two orders were €12.6 million and €9.6 million respectively. Both orders were

The field of Qasr is one of the most important for the extraction of gas on

Sitindustrie supplied stainless steel pipes for two ▼ ▼ major projects

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